Wednesday 17th - Performance 3

Following discussions on Tuesday night we decide other then light projections- which are only really effective at night- the most immediate way to get passerbys attention is to be working directly in the window space. I suggest to Anna that she should resinate* the window itself (*for those unfamiliar with our work resinating is our self coined term for Annas working practice & all-consuming desire to coat everything in balga resin.) - though after our 2hour window cleaning stint we decided perhaps its best to test it out first.

so Wednesday. day 3.
Anna & I brave the wind, rain and public prosecution by busing in each holding a large sheet of perspex. Anna set to work crushing up her resin and mixing it with the left over metho, while I strung up the sheets of perspex in the window frames then broke for bubble tea to let the resin further dissolve.

Anna stands behind the perspex, using the liquid resin to trace what she sees through the transparent screen. The perspex simultaneously acts as a framing device as well as a medium which allows an immediate translation of what one sees.
After about an hour of watching and documenting Anna at work she suggests I give it a go on the other sheet. Hesitant at first but reassured that it rubs off with metho I set to work with my preferred (although slightly less interesting) working method- a black marker & ruler.

I immediately becomes aware of the bizarre nature of this methodology. One must try remain standing at a central point and squint to focus on the outer view while trying to not let the perspex swing out of position. Being shortsighted I struggle to simultaneously focus my eyes on the foregrounded image i'm drawing and the 'live' image of the outside world.

Some people do stop to watch- two artists standing in window frames recording the street beyond them. After playing around with projecting these panes onto the street we pack up and leave for the day discussing what great printing plates they'd make.